Target - Deoxyuridine triphosphatase-Leishmania major


*Target (protein/gene name): Deoxyuridine triphosphatase (dUTP)
*NCBI Gene # or RefSeq#:
*Protein ID (NP or XP #) or Wolbachia#:
*Organism (including strain): Leishmania major
Etiologic Risk Group (see link below):
*Background/Disease Information (sort of like the Intro to your Mini Research Write up):
Essentiality of this protein:

Complex of proteins?:
Druggable Target: 0.2

*EC#: 3.6.1.23
Link to BRENDA EC# page:
-- Show screenshot of BRENDA enzyme mechanism schematic
Enzyme Assay information (spectrophotometric, coupled assay ?, reagents):
http://pfam.janelia.org/family/PF08761
2 substrates: dUTP and water
2 products: dUMP and diphosphate

-- link to Sigma (or other company) page for assay or assay reagents (substrates)
-- link (or citation) to paper that contains assay information
-- List cost and quantity of substrate reagents and supplier
Structure Available (PDB or Homology model)
-- PDB # or closest PDB entry if using homology model: 2CJE
-- For Homology Model option:
---- Show pairwise alignment of your BLASTP search in NCBI against the PDB
---- Query Coverage:
---- Max % Identities:
---- % Positives
---- Chain used for homology:

Current Inhibitors:
Expression Information (has it been expressed in bacterial cells):
Purification Method:
Image of protein (PyMol with features delineated and shown separately):
*Amino Acid Sequence (paste as text only - not as screenshot or as 'code'):
*length of your protein in Amino Acids
Molecular Weight of your protein in kiloDaltons using the Expasy ProtParam website
Molar Extinction coefficient of your protein at 280 nm wavelength:
TMpred graph Image (http://www.ch.embnet.org/software/TMPRED_form.html). Input your amino acid sequence to it.
*CDS Gene Sequence (paste as text only):
*GC% Content for gene:
*CDS Gene Sequence (codon optimized) - copy from output of Primer Design Protocol (paste as text only):
*GC% Content for gene (codon optimized):

Do Not Need this info for Spring (but still copy these lines to your Target page for now)
Primer design results for pNIC-Bsa4 cloning (list seqeunces of all of your ~40 nt long primers):
(link to DNA Works output text file - that should be saved in your Google Docs folder after you did the primer design protocol)
-- Ask a mentor, Dr. B, or a fellow researcher -how to link a GDocs file if you are not sure how to.

Primer design results for 'tail' primers (this is just 2 sequences):







Resources:

See ProtocolTargetDiscoveryVDS.docx for more
Etiologic Risk Group Categories (for pathogens): http://www.utexas.edu/research/rsc/ibc/agent_class.html#_Toc7238334

SIGMA-ALDRICH RESOURCES
Enzyme Explorer
http://www.sigmaaldrich.com/life-science/metabolomics/enzyme-explorer.html

Enzyme Classification Index (EC number)
http://www.sigmaaldrich.com/life-science/biochemicals/biochemical-products.html?TablePage=14573088




Databases of genes/organisms:
http://www.niaid.nih.gov/Pages/default.aspx
http://eupathdb.org/eupathdb/
https://patricbrc.vbi.vt.edu/portal/portal/patric/Home
http://www.nmpdr.org/FIG/wiki/view.cgi/Main/EssentialGenes
http://tubic.tju.edu.cn/deg/
http://csgid.org/csgid/cake/pages/community_request_gateway
http://tdrtargets.org/
http://gsc.jcvi.org/status.shtml


Scientific Nomenclature page from Center for Disease Control (gene, protein names and abbreviations)
http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/pages/scientific-nomenclature.htm


Gene Information:
NCBI GENE Page: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene
BLAST Page: http://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

Protein Information:
NCBI Protein Page: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/protein
Protein Expression Website
Protein Expression Paper: SGC_ProteinProductionPurificationNatMethods2008.pdf

Primer Overlap PCR Articles
HooverLubkowski_PCRoverlapcloninggnf042.pdf
StemmerPCRoverlapGene1995.pdf

Is my target good for Virtual Screening programs?
Reynolds_THermodynamicsLigandBinding_MedChemLett2011.pdf